so like the venezuelan supreme court rules delaying a chair with his inauguration is legal supporting the government in the fight for stability in the latin american states. expressing concern the u.s. wants the u.k. against holding a referendum on a possible e.u. exit causing a further schism in britain's coalition government. packs of wolves closing in on residential areas in russia's republic of you could hear forcing authorities to declare war on the deadly predator.

they're very good morning to if you just joined us this is our taste just after midnight here now my name's kevin now in first the smalling we perspire moment of the inauguration day for venezuelan president hugo chavez is legal according to the country's supreme court meanwhile the country's vice president's call for people to gather in front of the presidential palace to one of the leader who said to be recovering from cancer surgery in cuba lori the girl and she told me the country's opposition could use the president's protracted absence to destabilize the country now. article two thirty line of the venezuelan constitution does leave open to interpretation the issue of inauguration when the elected president cannot meet the date of january tenth before the national assembly which is the parliament what the out across pacifically says in a second clause is that in the case of unforeseen circumstances then the president elect will be sworn in before the supreme court but it doesn't give a date for there is another article in the constitution venezuela under which

president chavez was authorized to leave the country for more than five days back in early december in order to undergo the surgery and that article allows him to be absent from the country for it ninety days which can be renewed for another ninety days the issue is whether or not he's now incurring those first ninety days or is he under just the initial authorization now it's really way it is going to be determined sooner venezuela because it's there's no question that the president has now been out of the country for more than a month he's been absent from the spotlight there's not really a crisis at this time the opposition is trying to say there is a crisis and there is no doubt they're calling for national strikes all kinds of protests there already asking for the organization of american states in the united states to intervene so that's going to be ongoing and yes the longer that chavez is away the more time that will give them to prepare and to further progress with

plans to the stabilize his government and try to create some situation where new elections can be can mean the a used part to deal designed to reduce our lives by and it comes as the president of the european council home of dublin after the country took over the use rotating presidency i spoke to patricia mckenna she's chairperson of the people's movement she says the banking deal that was not as generous as it appears. there's a lot of propaganda surrounding the position within ireland at the moment and how it is doing and i think that's basically it also could try and keep a very disgruntled public happy because i think a lot of people are aware that there are many people on the street that are paying a car out of billing out german and british banks and i think that the directive of the e.u. propaganda machine is to ensure that people really don't see past the very basic just sad that has been part on this whole issue of how the e.u. is actually forcing ireland to. do it for reckless

lending and clearly you know it's also effort by the you to keep everything looking perfect at an international level because the credit and ality of your of course is paranoid because it has loses any more credibility it's going to do serious damage to the credibility of the was a whole which is why i think there's a lot of hype and it's been over the current presidency which is also costing by the way the taxpayer a huge amount. of stock on a mr levy a blow for admits he was wrong about early austerity forecasts admitting failure to see the grave consequences which the financial measures brought on weaker you countries is greece and i.m.f. work in progress is the front significantly underestimated any potential increase in unemployment market for pollies alone the both financial adviser and wealth manager he says regardless of the later statements the people will end up paying the government's mistakes. the reality is of course the inmost waste western

governments which includes most of the southern european countries the the level of state involvement in the economy has grown substantially over the last few years what happens is of course that any significant austerity measures will have a massive impact on our own economy as being as debt accumulation that's the same in in the us and most of most of europe mary's continuing massive accumulation of sovereign debt. and. for some point this was a plan through the r.m.f. through the european central bank through the germans and the european community that has imposed these these massive austerity measures on the southern european peripheral countries and of course it's not the people's follow the

government has overspent it's not the people's fault but the banking system has failed and needed to be bad but it's the people who have to deal with the dead through higher taxation and have to have to enjoy all these these massive measures. i.d.s. ongoing economic troubles to washington says any possible u.k. break away from the union is not in america's interests we're talking about that so that's adding then the to debate surrounding a possible u.k. referendum on the matter we got another system just a couple of minutes. as the economic crisis continues to rage on regulators are coming under fire for making banks lives easier rather than the people's and it appears the wider public knows little of how and where the big decisions about the global financial future are actually being made there's artie's peter all of of.

have you ever heard the wall about the bank is the billions and bars of the chances are you probably haven't but six times a year central bank heads from the u.s. europe asia and everywhere in between representing around three quarters of global economic output gather in the swiss city to talk shop behind closed doors i personally also don't like these secretive meetings because. you never know what in effect. is discussed in these meetings it's something that has a tradition that's put their way i mean bankers have always talked to each other in a more secretive way the whole business of banking is not really built on transparency but rather on trust and confidentiality the continuing global financial crisis has seen the banking sector firmly in the spotlight with more than a few accusing fingers pointed in the direction of bankers it's the job of the

secretive bars all committee to set regulations on banks the chairman of the group says he wants the public to be better informed about the work they do it's not that many years ago since this was basically a group of central banks it's expanded its membership considerably and in the process of that the whole governance arrangements of have changed as well and i think this is an attempt to explain to you in the world in general what those changes amount to and whether critics of the group are scathing in their criticism of what they see as an old boys club looking out for the needs of banking bosses as opposed to keeping the industry in line bezel three has failed to meet any objective in the you know faint hope of reining in banks this this is what we talk about today the banks does have to be reined in because the banking system in itself as a general rule has left its you know bottom sense despite mervyn king saying that

he wants people to do better. understand what the basel committee actually do the very nature of the banking industry and its need for a certain level of secrecy means that the big decisions that will affect people all over the world will continue to be made by a small group of people in that building just behind me peter all of a r.t. basel switzerland. the future of afghanistan for discussion is the country's leader meets top american officials in washington because those talks with the u.s. defense and countries as well as his upcoming one to one summit with president barack obama could provide to a wide range of crucial issues including the number of american troops to remain in afghanistan the majority put in twenty four. possible role washington doesn't finalize this is. a complete withdrawal is not welcome though by the afghan government to increasingly fragile amid the strengthening taliban insurgency hillary. extensively with u.s. diplomats in the middle east and he told me she believes there's nothing left for

president karzai to fight for in washington. i think these talks are for the president and his national security principals to let afghanistan's president karzai down as softly as they can to let him know that unfortunately they're not going to make good on their promise to completely train. the afghan military and police before u.s. troops leave i think this this visit is about trying to let cars i know as nicely as they can that they're not going to make good on their promise to continue to defend afghanistan and train up afghanistan's military i think part of it is that president obama you know after he agreed to surge the troops into afghanistan i think pretty quickly realized if he didn't realize even before the surge that there is no military solution for the united states in afghanistan and so i think in part the initial surge of troops by the president in two thousand and nine was to give

the united states some political cover to eventually do this troop withdrawal to show that we were withdrawing from a position of strength now i don't think it's turned out the way the president probably wanted it to because the taliban is so clearly on the office but the idea that the president did his best he tried to send more troops it didn't work he. david as we say in the united states the old college try and it just didn't work i think for an american population that is both battered financially and very tired of endless wars and occupations this is something that will basically go go forward without a hitch in terms of american public opinion. on the way eleven years of indefinite detention we discussed about patients of washington's keeping the tories one time in the military prison of despite barack obama's long running pledge to shut down the facility.

your own borders and beyond the courts eleven years on guantanamo remains open for business and r t looks at the interrogation nerve center of america's war on terror . whether you die from high or to the death. touch the power of the wind or drift in the beauty of the currents. the well prepared is a must and if you're lucky. you'll never forget your experience.

that's going to be heaven. always knowing that the u.s. prefers the u.k. has a close relationship with the e.u. because when it wants something done it's britain that it calls this kind of direct challenge to the government over europe involving itself in internal bush's affairs is something a little bit new the u.s. has warned of the dangers of holding a referendum on europe for the u.k.

and it has called for all out in the coalition government although that's not a difficult thing to do these days david cameron the prime minister has played it out saying it's just an opinion but kleck nick clegg his deputy has said that it is a big issue that the u.k. is valuable to give us precisely because it has a close relationship with the european union and of course his party does stand against anything that distances person from me now i felt that the main issue for people here given that there's an increasing lack of support for britain's membership of the european union would probably be just that the us sticking it all in so i went out to ask them they have concerns and i can understand because they were saying they feel that we have similar values. therefore we represent them and . clearly. we take notice but equally i don't. fully understand. the implications for

britain i don't think it is because i mean we are a different kind of teacher then say you know i think we should make the nation a lot of people in the streets they're saying a question of sovereignty now with me as general patton who's a member of the european parliament we've always known haven't we the u.s. prefers that the u.k. has a close relationship with the union so what difference does it make now that they've said it out loud i think the difference here is that they're actually interfering in british politics you know i think there's a difference between you can assign a country having a view about other country's foreign policy and stating that but i think this is a bit different this is a direct attempt to interfere in british the. policies and they're trying to frighten the british people by saying you know we'd lose influence and jeopardizes our special relationship and all the rest of it if we continue along this road of actually asking what's happened to our national sovereignty it's gone and we'd like it back and the polite thing applied thing i would say the guy is president.

and they become a big plans for a referendum or expecting this announcement within the next few weeks you'll be pleased about that what difference does this really make i think you'd have to be very naive to think if david cameron is sincere about this he's talked about a referendum but this whole thing about renegotiation is a nonsense you cannot renegotiate the terms of membership terms of membership decided by treaty they have to be done by the you know animists agreement of all twenty seven member states and twenty eight soon when croatia joins you cannot renegotiate on a piecemeal basis and nobody in the european you other countries going to renegotiate the terms or allow us to because we are one of the biggest paymasters to the you so the u.s. is worried about nothing but i think the americans should mind their own business. you know what we don't tell them how to about their national sovereignty they shouldn't tell us which is the most precious thing we've got is the right to determine our own democratic affairs thank you very much at starbucks and talking to me about ministration expressing his opinion on the u.k. and i'm sure the e.u. . that was artie's or

a smith for them as well human rights groups are calling on the us president to deliver on his promise made more than four years ago and shut down the tories guantanamo bay detention facility but barack obama recently authorized the military to keep holding terror suspects there without charge or trial as get more remains in business eleven years since it was opened let's get some reaction to this from dr mark mason joining us live from california dr i think there's a bit of a delay on the line but will bear with each other this over this interview because i'd like to get your thoughts and as an american how does it make you feel that guantanamo is still open more than four years after obama ordered it to be closed. well the united states has. an operation that can only be described as a medieval torture chamber it's in violation of the geneva conventions and violation of the us constitution it violates legal principles which is trial by

jury that goes back thousands of years it's in violation of due process that's written into the u.s. constitution written into the magna carta eight hundred years ago we have a. president and a congress who are by a leading basic human rights principles of access to a trial by jury access to the reasonable claim that they cannot be held without being either being released or promptly being charged and probably having a access to a court of law to have their day in court the united states and the president of the united states they are the number one terrorist nation the c.i. a is the private army of the united states they commit kidnapping torture and assassination most recently through the drone program so it's it's

a. violation of human rights well don't you if we didn't know what your stance was on it before we certainly do now you know to find ok i get that but the proponents of it will say with this so-called war on terror ongoing short of the u.s. is right to take send precautions and deal with terror suspects as they say fit is that a good enough excuse do you think. there's no such thing as a war on terror it's a misnomer it doesn't exist there's nothing to it one town i'm on now has one hundred sixty six prisoners eighty six of them have been cleared by the courts the u.s. courts have said you should release them immediately both the president and congress have failed to release eighty six prisoners at guantanamo who have been cleared by the courts and yet the courts also refuse to demand that the administration release these prisoners there are approximately six prisoners at guantanamo evidence is

available that it would be appropriate for them to be tried for various crimes and that should go forward under the appropriate criminal prosecution procedures in a court of law none of this is taking place final quick thought we got you on the line but the indefinite detention act can theoretically be used on americans a bomb of course a promise that's never going to happen but there again he also promised that one time i would be closed he worried about that. oh it has happened right here in the good ole us of a during world war two japanese americans people who are a japanese ancestry but born here in the united states citizens of the united states they were rounded up by a presidential decree and put in concentration camps so it's happened before and it

could very well happen again. how washington often lectures other countries about civil liberties and democracy how credible does the u.s. times look when indefinite detention in get low remain prevalent do you think final full. time. there's no credibility. the us is the empire that took over the global position at the end of world war two as the british empire collapsed we all know about the sordid and horrendous history of the british empire the american empire is run by serial emperors now we call them presidents but they act outside of long if they are not held accountable to law but the day will come when a president of the united states will go before a judge. of war crimes because since world war two the united states is

responsible for approximately the death of but ten million people more than a million in iraq three million in southeast asia. and the american empire like all empires when they will collapse it can't go on forever running out of money we're broke and the violations are maintained through the corporate media here in the united states the corporate media basically maintain a propaganda system that keeps the american people slumbering so neither the american people nor the united nations are taking action but we will see the collapse nice and light from california thanks for your thoughts on the program and then we're going to be bringing you as well more coverage of the eleventh anniversary of guantanamo bay on an i web site called.

beyond borders and beyond the courts eleven years on the guantanamo remains open for business marty looks at the interrogation nerve center of america's war on terror. healing the rift as rival palestinian groups from us and father homicide to try to overcome their differences we look into how israel's occupation policies may have brought the factions closer together. just after twenty three minutes past midnight no you say hello to katie again from our business to you hi there kate so you have news that timothy geithner is leaving office to go indeed you know what it's been officially announced today there was talks about jack lew coming in to take over and obama has said that he is going to be nominating him to take that position but the thing is it's all very controversial because of what's going on at the moment because the debt ceiling talks is it bad timing what's going to happen how are the market going to react to all these questions we're going to be asking and answering in the

business bulletin after the break kyra all right. wealthy british style. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy. for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports. good laboratory to mccurdy was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about

humans and. this is why you should care only. said i'm going to pay with all the latest finance for you welcome to the program. u.s. territory secretary timothy geithner is set to leave washington after four years of service in the obama administration geithner was a key player in many of the administration's early policy decisions about how to end the two thousand and eight financial crisis and jumpstart the economy so his the ponzo house raised something is considering the debt ceiling di lemma has not

yet been fully result president barack obama will nominate white house chief of staff jack lew as geithner success up earlier today i spoke to chief economist saxo bank steen jacobson about the transition of power first of all god knows only one of several players in the coming to go she asia and has been pretty much in the background also through the fiscal cliff but on the other hand of course she's a seasoned veteran negotiator having been deferred a reserve man in new york before he joined the treasury estrus or secretary so clearly he is on the financial markets as extended arm and someone i think wall street saw to as being a pair of steady hands on the other hand as as you just indicated the fact that the white house is not trying to replace the chief of staff in that position also tells you that obama wants someone you trust someone he sees on a daily basis someone who will reflect his stand so i will say that not the fact

that guy in the least but the fact that stuff is potentially going into this position put probably worsen somewhat the starting point for negotiation both on the debt ceiling battles or alternately on the spending cuts and as far as jack lew is concerned what will be top of the agenda then what needs to be done going forward. he majorly moved will need to move towards get in the talks on the debt ceiling in place it would also be for him to create the platform from which. obama is reflecting his view that he wants to do something about his legacy u.s. is still facing huge reforms needed in particularly in the health care costs where health costs over the next ten years will double in percent of the g.d.p. so there's still a lot to be done and i think appointing a somewhat more political person to the choices second chair will also indicate

that obama means business is terrific doing this and in terms of ways to tackle the debt then there's been talk of a one trillion dollar platinum coin to be minted as a way to resolve the over sixteen trillion dollar debt do you see this is feasible is it crazy is it is a good idea how do you see this. theoretically is a very good idea isn't it if you have too much state you can just mend some coins and you're out of your trouble of course i think clearly this is just the media and something which is playing really well on the internet and it's a funny story to report on but think about the consequences here that printing putting one trillion coin into the fed to reserve banking as the real assets would never work first of all i think the us will face a downgrade him easily and i also think the market of world somebody just say listen this is nothing to do with real politics and don't forget they are using if

doing so they're using a law which was passed twelve years ago to get the treasury. correct much of the coins not for using it to increase the ability to have political time to spend so this very very much this will fly and i'm sure even if they did try it will be falling at. the supreme court for some was certainly sue the u.s. government for doing so u.s. stock markets having a pay day because better than estimated chinese exports is really helping to temper a decline in technology stocks are going to class going on declines in apple and microsoft that's putting pressure on the technology sector so good today but we are looking at gains positive territory for now my estimate i learned european stock that he gained in the session remaining.